News10NBC Investigates: Brighton woman charged $144 in NYC EZ-Pass fees for state police car with same license plate

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Barbara Lipsky started seeing EZ-Pass charges on her credit card in January and February, each for $25. After four charges to replenish her account, she called EZ-Pass.

“So she’s pulling it up and she’s looking and all of a sudden she starts laughing,” Barbara Lipsky said. “And I asked ‘What’s so funny?’ She says well I just saw the picture. It’s a state police car with your license plate.”

The license plate is 1M-20. Every time the trooper drove into Manhattan it triggered E-ZPass charges in the city’s new congestion pricing zone. And every time, the state police weren’t charged. Barbara was…

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